FROM PAGE TO SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL 2024
PLUS SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY SCREENWRITER REBECCA LENKIEWICZ
Jonathan Glazer’s film, was adapted from the novel by Martin Amis whose main character was based on the real-life commandant of Auschwitz Rudolph Hoss. Set outside the camp in a seemingly idyllic house and garden the horrors taking place just over the walls are never seen but heard.
The film concentrates instead on the Hoss family’s daily life but the soundtrack includes some extraordinary non-music by Mica Levi with several reviewers suggesting that these sound sessions evoke precisely the horrors Glazer has decided not shown on the screen…
The Zone of Interest has won 3 BAFTA’s at this year’s awards including Outstanding British Film. It also won the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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DIRECTOR | Jonathan Glazer
STARS | Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller and Johann Karthaus
SOURCE TEXT | The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
SCREENWRITER | Martin Amis and Jonathan Glazer
“Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece”
The Guardian
“So much more upsetting than can be described.”
Empire
“Glazer’s extraordinary film hints at the human sickness behind the nightmare”
Time Out
“Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz film is horrifying in its banality ”
Telegraph
